PhD : Laser-driven permanent material modifications induced in out of equilibrium doped zinc oxide deposited by magnetron sputtering

Context :

Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are optically transparent thin films of metal oxides used as functional thin
films in many applications such as photovoltaics, OLEDs, touch screens, insulating and smart glazing and are crucial for energy transition. High conductivity TCO films require an energetically costly baking step of the film/substrate system, which makes it difficult to decorrelate crystallization, diffusion, activation and defect formation processes that have different activation times and energies. The very large surfaces necessary to cover all these needs together with environmental concerns demand high yield fabrication processes with abundant non-toxic materials and with the Iowest possible energy and raw material consumption.

Contact :

Konstantinos Iliopoulos (konstantinos.iliopoulos@fresnel.fr  PhD director), Matteo Balestrieri
(matteo.balestrieri@saint-gobain.com) and Pierre Gilliot (pierre.gilliot@ipcms.unistra.fr).

Offre PhD – ILIOPOULOS